Label



T. A. REILLY.

LABEL.

APPLICATION FILED ]AN.3, 1921.

1,414,830, Patented may 2, 1922.

THOMAS A. REILLY, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO J. & P.COATES (R. I.) INC., A CORPORATION OF RI-IODE ISLAND.

LABEL.

Application filed January 3, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS A. REILLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Central Falls, in the county of Providence and State ofRhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inLabels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved form of label or the like adaptedmore particularly to be attached over the open end of a tubular member,and the invention has for its object to provide such a label having abody portion for carrying printed matter 7 or the like and also shapedto cover the open end of a tube or the like, the same having tabs ormembers on its marginal edge adapted to be bent up and cemented to theside walls of the tube to secure the label in position over the open endthereof.

lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, as will be more fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the ap ended claims.

11 the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the outer face of a label as cut from the sheetwith its marginal tabs or portions.

Figure 2 is a. perspective view showing the printed inner face of alabel and its tabs bent up in position toembrace and be connected to theside walls of the tube.

Figure 3 shows a label applied to each end of a tubular core.

Figure 4 shows a label applied to one end of a tubular core and exposingthe printed matter on the inner face of the label as showing through theopposite open end of the tube.

Figure 5 represents a ball or mass of yarn as wound onto a tubular coreto one end of which my improved form of label is attached.

It has heretofore been found in practice in app-lying a label to the endof a tubular core such as that upon which yarn or the like is to bewound, to be necessary to first fix a cap or head on, or in, the end ofthe tube to provide a surface onto which the usual forms of labels maybe secured, but by the use of my improved form of label the same may besecured in position over the open end of the tube without the use ofsuch Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 2, 1922, Serial No. 434,752.

head or cap and so eliminate the expense of forming the cap and alsothat of applying and fastening the cap to the tube, which runs nto quitean expense where large quantitles of such tubular cores are used.

To obviate this difficulty in a simple and practlcal way I have formed alabel with a body portion 10 which is preferably substantlally the sizeand shape of the tube end to which it is to be attached, and on theperlpheral edge of this body I have formed a plurahty of integral tabs,projections or portions 11 which are adapted to be gummed and bent upfrom the plane of the body agalnst the side walls of the tube 12 to besecurely attached thereto.

. y the use of these tabs or projections it w1ll be seen that a labelprovided with them, may be readily applied to a tube to cover its openend without the necessity of first applying a head or cap thereto. Thenagain where the regular cap or head is eliminated my improved labelwhich now takes the place of the cap and covers the end of the tube, maybe printed with suitable advertising matter on both sides, and as it iscustomary to leave one end of the tube open as illustrated in Figures 4and 5, the printed matter on the inside 13 of the label, may be easilyread through the opposite open end of the tube, as illustrated in Figure4.

In the practical use of such tubular cores the yarn 14 is usually woundthereon by the so-called V or diagonal wind which in some cases may belapped slightly over the ends of the core as at 16 leaving the centerprinted matter on the label exposed both on the inside and on theoutside of the label.

My improved label is extremely simple and practical in construction andelfective in its operation and by its use the cost of labelling and sopreparing a tubular core for the winding operation, is reduced to theminimum.

I claim:

A closure member for the open ends of tubes comprising a paper bodyshaped to fit the tube end and provided with gummed peripheral tabsadapted to be bent up at an angle to the plane of its body to beattached to the side walls of a tube.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

THOMAS A. REILLY.

